web development

Understanding the GWT compiler

The GWT compiler is the fulcrum of GWT. The entire approach GWT takes, encapsulating browser differences and compiling JavaScript from Java, is made possible...

2 replies - 25669 views - 06/17/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Sun Tech Days jMaki Presentation slides and Sample code

Java technology evangelist Carol McDonald is one of the presenters you can see at this years Sun Tech Days series in Manilla. One of the topics she will be...

0 replies - 4743 views - 06/16/08 by Schalk Neethling in Announcements

Opera 9.5 Now Available for Download

What an exciting day for the web and web developers everywhere. The latest version of the Opera browser Opera 9.5 has been released and as of 9:00 AM GMT today...

1 replies - 2271 views - 06/12/08 by Schalk Neethling in Announcements

Working With The GWT Shell

The GWT shell is one of the most important components GWT provides, and one you’ll use every day when developing GWT applications.The shell is composed of...

0 replies - 12019 views - 06/09/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

HTML5 Alternative Text, and Authoring Tools

There is still strong debate about whether or not the alt attribute should be a required attribute for the img element in the HTML5 draft  on the W3C's XTECH...

0 replies - 681 views - 06/07/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Presentation Layer Performance Tuning

Typical conversations about Web performance tend to revolve around client/server latency, database performance, and the time it takes a server to render and...

0 replies - 1351 views - 06/07/08 by accessibility in News

Object Oriented Programming with JavaScript

I’ve wanted to move towards programming in C# for a while, and it seems like Silverlight 2 is giving me a great reason to make the time to learn it. In the...

0 replies - 2241 views - 06/07/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Presentation Layer Best Practices

With the adoption of W3C recommendations by most web browser manufacturers, client-side web development has finally reached "critical mass" in terms...

0 replies - 3476 views - 06/06/08 by accessibility in News

Google Style Did You Mean....? in PHP

On a new website I am developing for a client I had to add the usual "Did you mean... ?" in the search results for her. Si I started thinking for the...

0 replies - 22499 views - 06/06/08 by Alejandro Alvarez in News

27 Not to be Missed Web Development Articles - May 2008

This is the first edition of the monthly post that collects not to be missed articles from around the web that relates to web development. The amount of...

0 replies - 3151 views - 06/01/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

.NET Thinking Concurrently

In recent posts, you've found that I've been harping on immutability and side effect free functions. There is a general theme emerging from this and some real...

0 replies - 962 views - 05/30/08 by podwysocki in News

JavaScript Chaining Your Methods

In a previous post on JavaScript Ant I reviewed some techniques from JavaScript libraries that could prove to be useful in your own scripts. A final technique...

0 replies - 1768 views - 05/29/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

DOMAssistant 2.7.1 released

DOMAssistant has been covered frequently here on the web builder zone, including an interview with the creator of DOMAssistant Robert Nyman.

1 replies - 413 views - 05/28/08 by Schalk Neethling in Announcements

CSS Message Boxes for different message types

Can you believe this: Few days ago I went to my bank to check my credit score with the Credit Bureau. The bank official typed in my personal data and sent a...

3 replies - 45659 views - 05/26/08 by dzovan in News

HTML 5 Reverse Ordered Lists

One of the newly introduced features in HTML 5 is the ability to mark up reverse ordered lists. These are the same as ordered lists, but instead of counting up...

0 replies - 2336 views - 05/24/08 by Schalk Neethling in News